Topic 7 LE Vocabulary

Earth’s resources, such as our food

supply and solar energy, which, given

time, can be replaced

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

Any resources, such as fossil fuels and

minerals, that cannot be replaced

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

A harmful change in the chemical

makeup of the soil, water, or air

• pollution

• radiation

• fossil fuels

• deforestation

The process by which water

continuously moves from Earth’s

surface to the atmosphere, and back

• nitrogen cycle

• carbon cycle

• water cycle

• Phosphorous cycle

The process of converting an economy

into one in which large-scale

manufacturing is the primary economic

base

• deforestation

• pollution

• direct harvesting

• industrialization

The removal of an organism from its habitat

• deforestation

• direct harvesting

• pollution

• industrialization

removal of trees that results from

human activity

• deforestation

• industrialization

• pollution

• direct harvesting

A fuel, such as coal and gas, that comes

from the remains of organisms that

lived millions of years ago

• hydroelectric energy

• wind energy

• fossil fuel

• solar energy

An increase in Earth’s average surface

temperature caused by an increase in

greenhouse gases

• ozone depletion

• global warming

• eutrophication

• deforestation

an organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native.

• native species

• invasive species